An effort is underway to challenge a federal court ruling that extended the application of the Espionage Act to unclassified, non-governmental information.
An attorney for a man convicted on charges of economic espionage filed a petition with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals claiming the conviction for “gathering national defense information” was unjust in that none of the information was classified or even held by the government. -db
From Secrecy News, October 13, 2011, by Steven Aftergood.